The Transformers Hall of Fame voting, as expected, began early yesterday. In addition to the four automatic fictional robot inductees and the five fictional robot nominees we're voting on, four real-life creative folks are being inducted this year: Bob Budiansky, Peter Cullen, Yoke Hideaki, and Kojin Ohno. The one I'm most excited for is Bob Budiansky. Everyone remembers him as that guy who wrote 50 issues of the comic before Simon Furman took over, but few realize that he's the guy who named and characterized the first several years of Transformers. He named Jazz, Starscream, Megatron, and everyone else, and he was also responsible for those Tech Spec numbers and bios on the backs of all the packaging. In many ways, he is Transformers.

My feathered grill structure...

Fun thing we learned today. Transformers.com says we can vote once every day for the three weeks the poll will be up. What they don't mention is that you can also vote once per computer you own. And once per browser. Interesting! Remember, Dinobot, though honorable, wouldn't necessarily frown on such an action. He'd be open to cheating, so long as everyone was offered the same opportunity to cheat. It was just the heavily one-sided battles he frowned upon.

Now, since this voting is going on for three weeks, I, uh, don't expect to have Dinobot-related content throughout. That'd be annoying to both you and me! But here, have art I drew of Dinobot if he transformed into a more up-to-date velociraptor. You know, with feathers.